Vacant job

Gothenburg University meets society's challenges with versatile knowledge. With 58,000 students and 6,800 employees, the university is a large and inspiring workplace. Strong research and attractive education attract researchers and students from all over the world. With new knowledge and new perspectives, Gothenburg University contributes to a better future.

The Department of Didactics and Professional Practice (IDPP) is one of the strongest didactic environments in the Nordic region. A common interest at the department is to develop knowledge through education and research that contributes to a more equitable and sustainable society. The department's work includes teacher education and research on education, the teaching profession, teaching and learning, as well as development work relevant to school operations. The department is responsible for education at undergraduate and advanced levels. Read more (https://www.gu.se/didaktik-pedagogisk-profession).

Are you a teacher or teacher-trained and curious about how teaching can be developed with support from research? Do you want to deepen your subject knowledge while contributing to the development of schools? Then a doctoral position within the doctoral school Best Practice (BEPPE) might be the next step in your professional career.

Gothenburg University is seeking a doctoral student with a subject didactics focus on mathematics for the BEPPE doctoral school, admitted to the doctoral subject Subject Didactics with specializations or Pedagogical Work.

Doctoral School on Subject Didactic Models in the Earlier Stages of Compulsory School (BEPPE)

The BEPPE doctoral school aims to contribute to more systematic knowledge about how some scientifically established, but mutually different, subject didactic models function in different subjects and school contexts, and how they can be integrated into teacher education and compulsory school grades F-6. This means that as a doctoral student, you will research concrete teaching in the earlier years of compulsory school, with close connections to teacher education and school practice.

The doctoral school is arranged jointly by Karlstad University and Gothenburg University, with a total of nine doctoral students.

We welcome applications from teacher educators, school teachers, or anyone else interested in researching teaching and learning in the advertised specializations. You may be at the beginning of your professional career – what is important is your interest in teaching, learning, and the development of schools in interaction with research. The BEPPE doctoral school offers you a dynamic environment with opportunities to establish international networks, participate in conferences, and carry out stays abroad. For further information about the doctoral school and its focus: https://www.kau.se/rose/forskarutbildning/utbildningssatsningar/best-practice-en-forskarskola-om-amnesdidaktiska (https://www.kau.se/rose/forskarutbildning/utbildningssatsningar/best-practice-en-forskarskola-om-amnesdidaktiska)

Research Environments

An important part of the research is to contribute to theory and practice development in schools and teacher education. As a doctoral student, you will be attached to one of these specific subject didactic research environments.

Didactic classroom studies where teaching, learning, and the content of these processes are holistically observed and studied: https://www.gu.se/forskning/didaktiska-klassrumsstudier (https://www.gu.se/forskning/didaktiska-klassrumsstudier)

Phenomenography, variation theory, and learning study focus, for example, on how students' opportunities to learn specific subject content can be improved. The research investigates content-necessary conditions for learning and how they can be created, for example, in teaching through practice-oriented research together with teachers: https://www.gu.se/forskning/fenomenografi-variationsteori-learning-study (https://www.gu.se/forskning/fenomenografi-variationsteori-learning-study)

Job Responsibilities

As a doctoral student, you will primarily focus on your own doctoral studies. The doctoral education, which consists of 240 higher education credits (hp) for a PhD and 120 hp for a Licentiate degree, is an opportunity for paid studies combined with work and a chance to start an academic career. As a doctoral student, you work independently and are willing to contribute in various ways to the subject's and the department's work and development. You will have the opportunity to deepen your areas of interest together with others. With agreement, it may become relevant to participate in teaching and administration, so-called departmental service. Such work can comprise a maximum of 20% of full working hours. The work as a doctoral student gives you great freedom to plan and organize your work, which requires, among other things, commitment, drive, and the ability to structure the work to successfully complete a dissertation. To contribute to a good working environment and support both the operations and your own development as a researcher, you are present and actively participate in the daily work and community.

For further information, qualifications, and eligibility requirements, and to apply for the position, see the full advertisement at https://web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1035/job?site=6&lang=SE&validator=3038fcf1516ea1184a6da70a891f87da&job_id=40616 (https://web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1035/job?site=6&lang=SE&validator=3038fcf1516ea1184a6da70a891f87da&job_id=40616)

The University works actively for a working environment with equal conditions and values the qualities that diversity brings to the operations. The University applies individual salary setting. According to the National Archives' regulations, the University is obliged to keep application documents for two years after the appointment decision. If you as an applicant specifically request your documents back, they will be returned when the two years have passed; otherwise, they will be destroyed. To staffing and recruitment agencies and to you who are salespeople: Gothenburg University uses a procured advertising agency in connection with the recruitment of staff. We kindly but firmly decline direct contact from staffing and recruitment agencies as well as sellers of job advertisements.